Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness

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This book examines the eighteenth-century novel in the context of emerging theories of happiness in early Enlightenment Europe. This important and richly interdisciplinary book offers both a new understanding of the cultural work the eighteenth-century novel performed, as well as an original interpretation of the Enlightenment s ethical legacy.qInquiries into the nature and means of attaining happiness were conducted
throughout print culture, crossing disciplinary and generic lines, and published in
a wide variety of forms. With titles such as An Enquiry after Happiness, An Essay
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Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness

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Brian Michael Norton

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Rowman & Littlefield - 2012

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